Kefersteinia ocellata Garay 1969 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

Side View of Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Eyed Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in northwestern Ecuador and Colombia in wet, montane cloud forests as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters and requires year round water and fertilizer and has no pseudobulbs with an erect, short stem enveloped completely by several distichous, erect to spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that are articulated basally to the leaf sheaths and blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, horizontal, 1 1/5" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Senghasia ocellata (Garay) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 929 Dodson 1984; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;